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Podcast: Digital Afterlife: Hollywood and AI Tech · Ginger Liu

Opublikowano: 2026-06-24

Meta once explored an AI system that could keep posting on behalf of users after death, simulating their likes, comments, messages, and even calls from beyond the grave. This episode also looks at the wider rise of grief tech, AI resurrection tools, and new research warning that digital likenesses and chatbots can turn the dead into monetized “spectral labor” while raising serious questions about consent, memory, and digital afterlife culture Meta’s old patent for an AI system that could simulate deceased users has reopened a bigger debate about what happens to our digital selves after death. The co...